the foghorn // tizita
Tizita is full of majors and minors, bright and dull, a blending tonality setting scene for specific emotional response. It's a unique set piece for the end of a gathering. As though this music being played meant that now it is time to engage lamentation. Tizita (Amharic: ትዝታ), meaning memory or longing, also refers to a musical mode, or qenet/kiñit, and belongs to a group of four main qenets used in Ethiopian music (Tizita, Batti, Ambassel, and Anchihoye).
The major Tizita or Full Tizita is the same as a major pentatonic scale, whereas the minor, or Half Tizita, is not the same as the minor pentatonic scale.
Full Tizita: C - D - E - G - A. This is a major 2nd, major 2nd, minor 3rd, major 2nd, and a minor 3rd.
Half Tizita: C - D - Eb - G - Ab. This is a major 2nd, minor 2nd, major 3rd, minor 2nd, and a major 3rd.
To get to Half Tizita from Full Tizita, you need to flatten the 3rd and 5th. Therefore, Half Tizita is 1, 2, b3, 4, b5. http://fsuworldmusiconline.wikidot.com/music-theory-ethiopian-music
To me, Tizita feels like music as a contemplative tool.
If Tizita was a popular song form in the post-revolutionary period in Ethiopia this is because it not only conveys a profound sense of lost memories, but worse, it also conveys a sense that through loss of the object of love the very art of memory can also be lost. Not only does the song lament the loss of content, the very polysemy of the word and the song form laments the loss of a structure of feeling. Without the action of love, both form and content have the potential to disappear. In essence, then, Tizita conveys a feeling of time as being out of joint with itself: social life in transition. - Elleni Centime Zeleke
Reference: https://www.ethiopiaintheory.org/new-page-2 This link contains more relevant and appropriate information than anything I could possibly convey, I merely wanted to share this wonderful thing I've learned a tiny of piece of. Please follow the links provided for a more complete understanding.
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